One of the most frequently asked questions about the CS-script is a question about running the script engine on PocketPC.
Unfortunately Compact Framework (CF) is not ready yet for running dynamically loaded/compiled managed code.
The reason for this is that CF does not have implementation of
the
C# ICodeCompiler. Another words the following code would not compile:
ICodeCompiler compiler = (new CSharpCodeProvider()).CreateCompiler();If, in any future version of CF, Microsoft includes the CSharpCodeProvider implementation the CS-Script will work on such platform.
Starting from version 1.3 CS-Script supports pluggable custom compilers. It means that if you have third-party implementation of the CLR compiler that can work on CF it can be used instead of Microsoft compiler and CS-Script engine will be able to run C# scripts under CF.
Basically you need any workable C# compiler either managed or native that would work on CF.
I have tried to resolve the
problem by isolating the compiler from full
version of .NET Framework and bringing it on CF but did not
succeeded. Also I was trying to use third-party compilers (after all it
does not matter what software does the conversion C#->IL).
The
Pocket
C# compiler
looked promising but I could not get it working. Even despite the fact that I have
seen some reports dated 2004 that it actually did work.
However CS-Script provides some very limited support for CF. It comes in a form of cfbuild.cs script, which allows building a CF compatible managed executable from any appropriate the C# script.
You can compile the "Hello-World" script (hello.cs) into executable for WinCE5.0 with the following command:
//cscs cfbuild hello
This is the content of the hello.cs:| using System; using System.Windows.Forms; class Script { static public void Main(string[] args) { MessageBox.Show("Just a test!"); } } |
The produced executable can be run on the MS Device emulator or real PocketPC.
MS Device emulator:
PocketPC:
You can also use cfbuild.cs to install/uninstall the shell extensions for building CF based executables from the scripts:
//cscs cfbuild /i
